Turtles
Nests
Other Ways to Support Us
Turtles
Why Adopt a Turtle?
Our three beaches in Osa Peninsula receive around 4,000 nesting sea turtles per nesting season. We patrol the beaches every night searching for these ladies. When coming up to the shore we carefully work around the female turtle while she lays her eggs and take down her data. We would like to share our experience with you. Each of our female turtles that will be adopted with have a photo taken of them, certificate of adoption with the name of your choice, and a data sheet of her nesting details.
How to Adopt a Turtle:
If you would like to adopt one of our sea turtles please send us an email to tortugasdeosa@gmail.com that you would like to adopt a turtle and we will confirm your order.
We are only accepting PayPal donations as of right now. While making your payment on PayPal please leave us a note with your first and last name with a note saying you would like to Adopt-A-Turtle.
The turtles, community, and all of COPROT Appreciates your support!
Nests
Each year thousands of turtles crawl up onto the beaches in Carate to lay their nests. While we primarily have the Olive Ridley species, with each nest containing 80-120 eggs, we also have nesting Green turtles and Hawksbills.
The turtles face predation from feral dogs, pumas, raccoons, coatis, crabs, birds, and maggots. In addition, the turtle has to lay her eggs out of reach of the tides, or the nest will become flooded and the embryos will die.
COPROT is committed to protecting as many nests as possible. If the mother turtle lays her eggs in a place we know to be safe, we cover the nest securely with a bamboo cage, held in place by stakes. But if the nest is too close to the incoming tides or she lays in an area frequented by tourists and feral dogs, our researchers and volunteers relocate her nest to our hatchery which has a hatching success rate of 93%. In 45-60 days, the eggs will hatch and our researchers will collect the hatchlings, and take them to where they were originally laid for release.
We have 180 available spots for nests in our current hatchery on Carate beach, and we are in the process of building a second hatchery on the Rio Oro side. The building of the hatcheries and paying the salaries of our locals to relocate nests can get expensive, and we need your help. We would like to invite you to adopt a nest in our hatchery for a season!
If you would like to adopt one of our nests please send us an email to tortugasdeosa@gmail.com that you would like to reserve a nest and we will confirm your order.
We are only accepting PayPal donations for the nests. While making your payment on PayPal please leave us a note with your first and last name with the chosen Adopt-A-Nest Package.
The turtles, community, and all of COPROT Appreciates your support!
Other Ways to Support Us
Liking what we stand for? You can help support our project by repping our logos, making a donation, becoming a volunteer, and being apart of the fun by adopting a turtle or nest.
As of right now we are currently developing our basecamp. We have began building on a new piece of property right by Rio Oro where our headquarters will be. We are a new project and have received a small to grant to get started, which has gotten us so far already!
Unfortunately now, most of our funds are towards data collection materials that will survive this tropical environment like waterproof journals, GPS systems, tape measures, temperature data readers, rubber gloves, turtle first aid kits, and pencils. Other spendings are solely going towards materials for building, our local’s wages, and our building crew costs (which also consists of all locals) as our values are to give back to the community and create a permanent project.
Any donation, no matter how small you may feel it is, means a lot to us. A little money goes a long way for us. Thank you for considering and reading
Donations: Money or Materials
Any amount you can give, we would appreciate!
If you have any kitchen ware, bedding materials, planting seeds, or other housing materials you are not using we would love to take those off your hands as well! Just send us an email to tortugasdeosa@gmail.com and we can send you an address to send them too. Since we are in the jungle, we have packages shipped to Puerto Jimenez. Then we receive the packages on the colectivo or bus. Thus, we must organize an address for you to send these materials to.